The AI Risk Mitigation Fund (ARM Fund) is a non-profit aiming to reduce catastrophic risks from advanced AI through grants towards technical research, policy, and training programs for new researchers.
Grants from our team
The ARM Fund launched in December 2023 and hasn’t made any grants yet. Here are some grants made by the ARM Fund team as part of their grantmaking for the Long-Term Future Fund.
We are proud to have made grants to many of these individuals early in their careers, after which they went on to make significant contributions in technical AI safety and AI governance.
Grantmaking focus areas
Technical research can uncover dangerous capabilities before it’s too late, or enable us to design future AI systems that are easier to understand, monitor and control.
Good policy can ensure that governments and corporations appropriately guard against catastrophic risks.
Investment has poured into AI capabilities development, yet strikingly few researchers are working on key problems in AI safety, particularly outside of major industry labs. Grants in this area aim to bring new talent into the AI safety field.
About the Fund
This fund was spun out of the Long-Term Future Fund (LTFF), which makes grants aiming to reduce existential risk. Over the last five years, the LTFF has made hundreds of grants, specifically in AI risk mitigation, totalling over $20 million. Our team includes AI safety researchers, expert forecasters, policy researchers, and experienced grantmakers. We are advised by staff from frontier labs, AI safety nonprofits, leading think tanks, and others.